Posted on 01/21/2015 3:43:04 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009
New GOP Border Security Bill Removes Border Fences The new border bills drafted by Republican leaders require the actual removal of at least 66 miles of weak border fencing between Mexico and the United States.
The border bills also only require for the construction of 27 miles of effective double-layer fencing along the 2,000-mile border.
It is a remarkable that the direction of our progress is going backwards, from a goal of building 700 miles of double-layer border fencing [in 2006] to only 27 miles [in 2015], said a Hill staffer who opposes the leaders bills.
Where the double-layer fence has been put in, it has worked spectacularly. The public is with us 80, 90 percent on this issue, he added.
Extra fencing would be a waste of money, according to Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.
The bill matches resources to needs, putting 27 more miles of fencing where fencing is needed, and technology where technology is needed, said the statement.
In our conversations with outside groups, experts and stakeholders, we learned that it would be an inefficient use of taxpayer money to complete the fence. We are using that money to utilize other technology to create a secure border, said the statement.
A House staffer said the McCauls bill doesnt require a major fence because of advocacy by Heritage and Grover Norquists Americans for Tax Reform.
Dan Holler, communications director for Heritage Action for America, told The Daily Caller that Heritage did not recommend against fencing.
ATR has joined with wealthy advocates such as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to call for increased use of foreign workers and residency for illegal immigrants.
Senate committee staffers declined to offer any reassurances that Senators would modify the bill to fund more fencing and to block Obamas catch-and-release policy, prior to a Senate vote in a few weeks.
Were going to be looking at everything, said a committee staffer. We cant give any detail beyond that.
The Senate bill is co-sponsored by Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who co-sponsored the Senates 2013 immigration bill.
We introduced the McCaul [House] bill [in the Senate] as is and plan to update and improve it as we study the issue through [House] briefings and hearings, said the staffer, who works for the Senates homeland security committee. The committee is chaired by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.
The public strongly supports a border fence. An April 2013 poll by Rasmussen shows that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters think the United States should continue building a border fence, while 29% disagree. Support for the fence is much higher among the GOP-leaning voters that provided the votes for the GOP victory in November.
A 2006 law required the construction of 700 miles of double-layer fencing along the 2,000 mile border. However, Congress quietly modified the bill in 2008 to allow the construction of simple, ineffective fences in place of the required double-layer fencing.
Officials claim that just over 600 miles of the border now have obstructions, including barriers. But those barriers include lines of bollards to stop vehicles, plus single-layer landing mat fencing and only 36.5 miles of double-layer fencing.
The leaders bills call for the replacement of anti-pedestrian mat fences by anti-vehicle bollards.
The bollards will allow migrants to be driven up to the border, and then walked over to a pick-up vehicle on the U.S. side.
Not later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall replace, at a minimum, each of the following: (A) Thirty-one miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrols San Diego sector. (B) Five miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrols El Centro sector. (C) Three miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrols Yuma sector. (D) Twenty-five miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrols Tucson sector. (E) Two miles of landing mat fencing with bollard style fencing in the Border Patrols El Paso sector, says a section on page 12 of the House bill, HR 399.
Great post,Great tagline
” While I agree with the anger, would a President McCain have authored / signed the Affordable Care Act into law?”
My guess? Yes.
I don’t think healthcare would even have come up as a topic had McCain won. The only reason it did was the leftism of Obama enabling the democrat supermajorities to ram it through at great cost to their own. They’d never have jumped through all those hoops with a Republican president.
” I dont think healthcare would even have come up as a topic had McCain won”
Probably not, but if it had, he would. Since 2000, McCain seems to have dedicated his life to harming conservatives.
The chairman of Homeland INSECURITY should have illegals routed through his back yard every hour on the hour. Oh, wait, he has a fence around his property, an alarm system and if not security on site at least has them on a moment's call.
Since when do they care about wasting money. They do it everyday and every way.
Meant to include his security at a moment’s call is inside a very wealthy gated community. Take down his security gate and move him along the non-fenced border and then we’ll see just how fast he flip flops.
How many miles of the US/Mexico border have some type man made barrier such as fence, wall, etc?
Does anyone know or have a link to data?
So, apparently, is keeping the Department of Homeland Security. Let's shut it down. Stop the generational welfare scam as well, it's really a waste of money.
In our conversations with outside groups, experts and stakeholders, we learned that it would be an inefficient use of taxpayer money to complete the fence.”
Stakeholders? What does that mean? People who have a stake in the argument? Like illegal aliens and CoC?
The 29% who are against the fence CAN NOT be U.S. citizens. We need to stop polling illegal Mexicans.
Speaking of Mexicans, 5 Hispanics burst into a $300,000 house NW of Houston (about 5 miles from me) this morning. One of them had a “tear” tattoo in the corner of his eye. They forced a mother and her two daughters into a closet and ransacked the place. Thank God no one was hurt.
This is about as far on the outer edge of town as you can get. There is no safe place.
This is UN stuff. The rest of the world wants us destroyed so they can have one world government. And that includes rinos.
I truly believe that if Obama was to refuse to leave office in 2017 the republican party would accept it. And I think this scares Hillary more than any opponent.
Mike Lee is now sending out emails saying he “needs our help” on stopping the FCC from taking over the internet.
The FCC is going to put a tax on the web. I thought only congress could raise taxes.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2015/01/22/3942664_house-heads-to-vote-on-border.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
House heads to vote next week on border security legislation
WASHINGTON The House is moving toward a vote on a bill aimed at securing the U.S. border
with Mexico as majority Republicans try to show they can chart their own course on
immigration, not just oppose President Barack Obamas.
The legislation passed the House Homeland Security Committee late Wednesday on
a party-line vote of 18-12, and the full House is expected to take it up next week.
....
The bill would require operational control of high-traffic areas of the border within two
years, and operational control of the full border within five years. The bill defines
operational control as stopping or turning back all attempted border crossers, which
Democrats said was unrealistic. Some past immigration and border bills, including one
advanced in the last Congress by McCauls committee, have sought to block 90 percent
of would-be crossers.
I hate that I was played for a fool. And I was a fool.
When the republicans won the house I was depressed that I wasn’t excited about the win. I felt the same way when they took the senate. Neither win was anything to get excited about.
Oh, and I didn’t vote for them.
Survivors guilt. We all at some point wanted to believe and it’s hard to let go. But many of us will or have. The ones that want to crawl in the coffin with the GOP’s corpse should be left there to starve to death.
Darwin wasn’t entirely mistaken. Gene pools benefit from the lack of corrupt DNA.
I was not depressed when Boner was re-elected speaker because I was expecting it. I’m much happier when I’m not into denial.
Is Grover Norquist a true Muslim?
His wife is, so would think at the least, he would be a Muslim sympathizer.
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